Pre-event at WUF9 · Moving from What to How: Implementing and Monitoring the New Urban Agenda

Opening Remarks

13:00 – 13:15

 Michael Cohen, The New School (5 min)

 Peter Kurz, Mayor of Mannheim and Vice-President of the Global Parliament of Mayors (5 min)

 Ahmad Rifai, Kota Kita (5 min)

1. Panel: Implementing the NUA in cities. Case Studies.

13:15 – 14:30

Approximately:

10min per presentation

20 min Q&A

Presentations should address:

– The challenge that the city was /is facing

– Policies and practices that positively or negatively affected the challenge

– Lessons learned for other cities

Presenters:

 David Simon, University of Gothenburg, Mistra Urban Futures

 Michael Cohen, The New School

 Sri Sofjan, Huairou Commission

 Kemal Taruc, Jakarta University

 Mannheim or other GMP city

Moderator: Kota Kita

COFFEE BREAK 14:30 – 14:45

2. Panel:

Local capacity to accomplish the “how.”

14:45 – 16:00

Approximately:

10min per presentation

20 min Q&A

Presentations should respond to the following questions:

– Do city authorities and local governments have enough capacity to shape their futures?

– What are the ways that cities are gaining that capacity politically and economically?

– What role do city networks or civil society organizations play in increasing capacity?

Presenters:

 Alex Jachnow, IHS

 Margarita Gutman, The New School

 Gulelat Kebede

 GPM city to be identified

Moderator: TBD

COFFEE BREAK 16:00 – 16:15

3. Panel:

Monitoring and the Role of Local Data.

16:15 – 17:30

Approximately:

10min per presentation

20 min Q&A

Presentations should respond to:

– How should commitments and goals be monitored? Who should monitor?

– How can monitoring efforts go beyond assessment exercises but also increase accountability, and feed back into policy debates and discussions at the local level?

– Finally, how can alternative and innovative types of data complement government statistics?

Presenters:

 Lena Simet and David Lopez, The New School

 Javier Perez Burgos, National Planning Department of Colombia

 Christian Hubel, Mannheim

 Jose Carrera, Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) (TBC)

Moderator: Magali Fricaudet, UCLG

Closing Remarks

17:30 – 18:00

 Christoph Beier, GIZ

 Peter Kurz, Mayor of Mannheim and Vice-President, Global Parliament of Mayors

 Kota Kita

 Michael Cohen, The New School

18:00 – 18:30 RECEPTION